In November last year, construction began on a chemical plant in Haicang district, located on Xiamen island in the capital of Southwestern China's Fujian province, slated to produce the solvent toluene, terephthalic acid, benzene and, for example, an expected annual output of 800,000 tons of the toxic para-xylene which, according to its Wikipedia entry:
“…affects the brain. High levels from exposure for short periods (14 days or less) or long periods (more than 1 year) can cause headaches, lack of muscle coordination, dizziness, confusion, and changes in one's sense of balance. Exposure of people to high levels of xylene for short periods can also cause irritation of the skin, eyes, nose, and throat; difficulty in breathing; problems with the lungs; delayed reaction time; memory difficulties; stomach discomfort; and possibly changes in the liver and kidneys. It can cause unconsciousness and even death at very high levels (see inhalants).”
The plant had originally been placed seven kilometers away from the city center and given a buffer zone, but due to continued expansion is now just 1.5 kilometers from the nearest residential zone, 4 kilometers from the nearest school and 7 kilometers from the downtown core, not to mention having been built within a state-protected natural zone home to rare marine species. The issue was raised at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing this spring via a motion put forth by Chinese Academy of Engineering member Zhao Yufen, former president of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics University Shen Shituan, as well professor in the Chemistry department at Xiamen University and Chinese Academy of Sciences member Tian Zhongqun, calling for the plant to cease operations and relocate. Following this, Zhu Xingxiang, Director-General of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), expressed his agreement with the proposal, but declared SEPA unable to take actions to implement it as the original project had been approved and invested in by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Nearly all the information above has come from a steady series of blog posts Southern Metropolis Daily columnist Lian Yue has written for his Lian Yue's Eight Continent blog beginning last month, from ‘Environmental protection officials who can't protect the environment,' [zh] to ‘What are the people of Xiamen supposed to do!,' [zh] in which he mentions that information regarding the plant is being surpressed, presumably in local media, with the post making the following suggestions:
1、首先，你不要怕，议论全国政协的头号提案不是罪，你不会被抓的。
2、如果你有BLOG，上论坛，请转载这篇新闻：《厦门百亿化工项目安危争议》；转载国内合法发行的报纸上的新闻也不是罪，你不会被抓的。
3、如果还是害怕，就在近期之内多跟你的朋友、家人、同事议论这件事——他们说不定全不知情。
4、如果你还是怕，那就告诉最好的朋友及家人。
5、如果你不怕，还应该告诉漳州、泉州的朋友，他们一样处于危险之中。
6、说清楚下面几句话就可以了：
7、这是105位全国政协委员反对的化工项目，他们中包括了最权威的专家。
8、PX项目至少应该离城市一百公里才安全。
9、厦门人至今被剥夺了PX项目的知情权，这反证了它是违反民意的。
10、它将使厦门经济倒退，物业贬值、游客减少；而且厦门人还将由此落下软弱与愚蠢的名声。
11、你得癌症的可能性大大提高了。
12、不需要你有太勇敢的举动，只要你让你身边的人都知道这件事以后，厦门之死你就没有责任了。
2. If you have a blog or frequent online forums, please spread this news article: ‘The controversy over the Xiamen chemical factory worth billions'; distribution of news from newspapers legally distributed within the country is not a crime, you will not be arrested.
3. If you're still afraid, during this time meet more often with friends, family and colleagues to discuss this matter—they might not have all the details.
4. If you're still scared, then try just talking to your best friends and immediate family.
5. If you're not afraid, you ought to tell your friends in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, they're in as much danger as you are.
6. Explaining the below few lines is enough to get started:
7. This project was opposed by 105 national members of the CPPCC, which includes some of the most authoritative experts.
8. The para-xylene (PX) project will only be safe if at least 100 kilometers from the city.
9. To this day, Xiamen residents have been deprived of the right to know about the PX project; this just proves that it is in violation of the people's will.
10. It stands to put Xiamen's economy into reverse; property prices will go down, tourism will decrease, and from this Xiamen residents stand to gain a reputation for being weak and stupid.
11. The chances that you will gain cancer will be significantly increased.
12. There's no need for you to commit any acts of bravery, just as long as you let the people around you know, you won't be responsible for the death of Xiamen.
..and his recommendation [zh] of ‘Haicang, My Home‘, the Sina.com blog set up by residents of Haicang district last month, particularly the March 29 post copied back from a bbs forum, ‘The cries of residents of Xiamen city, Fujian province——please save our rights to live!‘ [zh]:
每次打电话到110以及12369环保投诉电话，得到的答案是他们马上派人去看工厂生产是否正常。还有人员解释说他们已经测试过这此企业，大部份达到国家排放标准，有部份企业微微超标，已有在整改。还说是企业就会污染，一点点是很正常的。可居民是没有任何污染数据的，甚至海沧区成立3年来连个空气监近控点也没有，厦门市每天都有预报空气质量，可唯一落下的就是海沧区。我们要的是新鲜空气啊。这种能让人从睡梦中呛醒的味道能说对人体无害吗？何况7月份福建省环保局联合厦门市环保局有对海沧进行三天的空气质量监测，结果是硫化氢及臭气浓度等多项指标都超过了国家标准。（报告在市、区环保局）
我们也做过努力，三年前就非常多的声音反映到市政府，在厦门各个论坛上抱怨，可换来的是当地政府为了厦门市的形象及海沧房地产的健康发展竟然和网站沟通，把所有关于厦门污染的贴子全隐藏了。隐藏后改善本来是极其妥善的办法，但几年过去了污染没有改善，反倒连本带利的愈加严重。人们群众的声音总是有限的。地方政府重GDP而轻环境保护是子孙们的悲哀啊！
我们用事实说话。请中央救救咱们吧、救救我们来之不易的劳动成果、能守着累了倦了可以靠它来栖身的家！
We're telling the truth. Central government, please save us. Save the hard-earned fruits of our labors! Save the homes in which we so tiredly live!
A search through Google Images for the words “Haicang” and “pollution” “could not be displayed” past the fourth page of a full set of results, which show nothing of the plant, the usual condition when Google is used to search for sensitive keywords, and a similar search using Chinese search engine Baidu brought back only two photos—one of which no longer exists, and the other, a map of downtown Xiamen—attached to what appears to have once been “a mass petition for the victims of air pollution in Haicang” (海沧受害者大签名—-空气污染). In this photo, Haicang is the large residential area in the upper-right and the factory in question is in the upper-left:
Similar is this image, posted at the Haicang residents' blog along with the text and link to an undated submission, with a response, to the Fujian Environmental Protection Bureau complaints website:
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Thanks to John Kennedy for his work. I have three corrections for the sake of clarity in this important matter. 1. Xiamen is not the capital of Fujian. It is a “sub-provincial level” municipality [meaning XM may ignore the local capital in many matters]. XM is the site of a Special Economic Zone, the only one outside Guangdong. The SEZ is positioned to become a gateway to Taiwan investment. 2. Haicang district is not on Xiamen island. XMI has only two districts, both of which comprise the SEZ. XM municipality also runs four districts on the mainland. Haicang, one of these, has long been a sort of watering hole for industrial investors. Kodak is maybe its best known international corporate citizen. Xianglu [or Hsianglu] of Taiwan is the citizen in question. It has operated two factories for some time [cf the photos above]; the paraXylene plant opening in ‘09 will be its third. 3. The aerial/satellite photo that Kennedy found on Baidu does not show downtown Xiamen–”downtown” would mean a part of one of the districts over on the populous island. What the aerial/satellite photo shows is a part of Haicang district. The residentail area top right is thus not Haicang–but the district government is there. Note the other residential areas middle right and bottom right, along the shore of Xiamen bay [and facing the island]. The paraXylene factory is not top left, but pretty much in the centre [the green arrow in the second photo]. The other two Xianglu factories lie just north and south of it. BTW : Kennedy’s piece was posted on the blocked-in-china China Digital Times on April 7th. It followed another good piece on the subject by Mo Ming, who had just attended the municipal People’s Political Consultative Congress and been surprised at the effectiveness of censorship on this issue.
Thank you for publishing this in English. I am a resident in Xiamen and was made aware of this project only this morning. A demonstration is being organized for the morning of June 1. The only thing it will achieve is prbably to make more people aware of the danger of this project.
There are a lot of other foreign investments in Xiamen. For a while Xiamen’s goal was to become a city like Hong Kong or Singapore with pollution free light industries and a financial center where large companies could move their headquarters to this beautiful small island. It is quite short-sighted to sacrafice the environment and put the people in harm’s way in order to boost its GDP. With more and more people aware of this project, less and less business will want to move to Xiamen. And that is the only thing the local government might care to consider. Not that the local government has much of say in this issue. The project is obviously backed by the higher level authority. What the article did not mention is the background of the PX project investor, Chen You Hao.
Chen You-hao (陳由豪, pinyin: Chén Yóuháo) is a fugitive businessman wanted by Taiwan. In August 2002 Chen You-hao was indicted on charges of breach of trust and fled Taiwan. He was charged stealing about NT$800 million from the Tuntex Group’s subsidiary Tunghua Development in 1995. Chen You-hao, after having his ROC passport canceled for refusing to return to Taiwan to face prosecution, he fled to the United States using a PRC passport. —- entry from Wikipedia
This is the type of man the government chose to work with. No integrity, no social consience.
I hate this kind of pollution companys very much! They are just knew how to make more money for themselves, but they have never been to care people’s health and air pollution in xiamen city .And they will killing people and nice city soon if they are not be stoped by government, Hoping the government will care of it for xiamen people,we will be appreciation!
thank u!
thank u for what u done for this city, for the people who live in it.
1st june, there will be a march in xiamen. Call for our legal right.
we are trying our best to save our island, save our life.
I will take part in the march in june 1.
Anti-px,save Xiamen,save my hometown.
Thank u
Thanks Margaret, Mary, Yuhong and Jinlin! The Guangzhou crew hopes to see you all there.
Thanks for your work! I am a resident in XIAMEN and will have my daughter after 2 months.Now I must do something to protect my family.
Many thanks for your work!
All of Xiamen people love you!
I support you Xiamen people. I love you fighting for your rights!
Thank you gentleman, although I am overseas, I still very care about this event, I hope 1st Jun will have thousands of people join into this march and protest the PX pollution in Xiamen, I saw lots of logo from internet as well as desighed T-shirt.
I really hope the government will notice they are wrong!!!I am afraid to imagine my home town become rare signs of human habitation few years after…onlt left the chemical factory smoking…
[...] pic: John Kennedy [...]
I will be there. I am Xiamen Citizen. This is definitely a wrong project. I respect scientist though government really does not. Low probability of potential risk is not able to justify this project.
i am xiamenese too.i really angry government about this kind of ugly butcher.some leaders,they really don’t care about 2 million people’s lives.xiamen just a very small island,and this project is really so huge and terrible.2 million have dangerous of life.if bomb,how we image this result,even not bomb,the pollution will let all the people get cancer and butcher abnormality!!how terrible.xiamen is just a nice travelling city,why it should become a chemistry city???why????no doubt,this project will be done next year with all xiamen people’s despair!!i have nothing to say…i just feel very very tired…2 million people’s oppose can not save this terrible affair…
Viode for this
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/nv_SzqfLjhQ/
Amoy is dying!!!Xiamenese are suffering!!!
We have got o die because of PX Program!!!
Chinese government is irresponsible, watching its people dying without doing anything!!!
Go the hell!!! Those disgusting officials!!!!!!!
What a tragedy!!!!!!!
I just telling the truth, intend to let more people know the truth….even my hometown—Xiamen won the “Nations in Bloom” competion in November 2002 …..
Dear Kennedy and friends:
Could you kinly help Xiamen to sent(cc) this article to other famous website, pls noted that Xiamen is not the capital of Fujian, but it’s a famous city in the worldwide, remember that Xiamen won the “Nations in Bloom” competion in November 2002.
Appreciate with many thanks and with best regards
Bill
Bill
We must keep this discuss on, all related articles and news were blocked by Chinese government, ppl could only disseminating this news within a small region, they need help.
Pls send it to more famous media asap,such as,CNN ,BBC ,ABC,VOA …
Let more people will know it in the world ..
I support you Xiamen people
Thank you for you ,John.You all have done a good job,the xiamen people love you !
Thank you John!
Thanks for your voice for Xiamen people!
It’s not those company…it should be the government…we should fight for it, fight for our life, fight for our future, fight for our next generation!
Thank u. John
No, thank you Grace and everyone else who’s left a comment. See you all downtown Xiamen tomorrow morning!
Thank u,John
thank you so much for what you done for this poor city! I was putting so much love here and hope could stay and find my life meaning. recently I feel so lost and depreseing about what I learned. where is my legal right and where is my city. here has been a clean and beautiful city, and it was my heaven.
thanks again and hope the thing could be learn by ereryone in the world and this project will never be done at anywhere on the earth!!!
please help to translate this, let the whole world know the darkness of Xiamen government!
搜狐博客 > 浪迹天涯じ☆ve驿站 > 日志 > 工作生活 2007-06-01 | 厦门6.1黄丝带运动 抵制PX 救救厦门 厦门市政府召集各大企事业单位开会，要求其在职员工不得参加游行。
包括学校，工厂等在内的单位都收到了相关的通知，政府部门对于游行人群的限制，已经由党员和新闻工作者，扩大到了普通从业人员。
估计六月一日最终参与的人数会受影响。
目前，通过对互联网的检索，可以判断，中国对外网路主干道上的长城防火墙，已经阻止了包括“游行”等在内的相关敏感字眼，如此一来，当包括台湾，香港等在内的境外用户访问包含相关字眼的境内网站时，链接会被强行终止，而大陆用户访问包含这类字词的境外网站，也会被强行切断链接。经过这一级过滤，大陆地区在这个内容上又成为了信息孤岛。
与此同时，xmnn.cn上的相关评论似乎没有再被继续删除了，也许是管理人员已经下班的缘故。但是小鱼社区似乎不太可能很快恢复。
事情至此，可以得出一个简单的结论，事情已经惊动了北京高层，为了不扩大此事在国际上的影响，消息封闭是最直接的手段。可悲，不关心人民的健康，不惧怕人民的反对，却害怕国际社会的指责。
另市政府已经下达正式通知，事业单位人员，参加6.1游行的，视为自动离职。
厦门现在已经是白色恐怖时期，昨天几乎所有大点的企事业单位，都收到政府通知，限制员工和亲戚到市政府游行，否则就开除，厦门大学已经限制出入了，各网站也限制评论，还有人想到这种关系民生问题定位成政治问题，我不知道这种就是所谓的中国民主，老百胜现在是敢怒不敢言，我们希望所有有良知的厦门人都要站起来反对，我们希望能得到各地朋友的声援，反对PX，停建PX，何立疯下台！！！
现在在厦门这个话题是个禁忌，我们看到的只有明目张胆的限制，试问民主何在，自由何在？学生参加游行一律开除，6.1假期取消。
6.1手系黄丝带，大家一起保卫厦门……
inevitably, the march is supressed. i wasn’t there, how much i hope i was there. all Xiamen citezens are of one mind to fight against the PX project. this will firm the power to turn down the project finally. Xiamen as the most suitable city for living shall never be damaged. the government is wrong, totally wrong. and i hope the pressure from chinese people and from all over the world will make chinese government change it’s decision, stop this project totally.
sos…
i, as a citizen of xiamen city, and in love with this city, call for help from all over China and the world…
Against PX in Xiamen this morning ,detail Live ,pls log the website : http://www.flickr.com/photos/78205250@N00/sets/72157600293959345/
Pls send it to famous Media for reporting today …
It’s so kind of you for what you did for XM.
I grown up in XM and now I study in NanJing.
It’s a pity that I can’t go to the march.
Some of my classmate and I just tie the yellow riband and support our compatriot in Amoy.
Thank you,John~~
我一想到这些我的眼睛就会湿润,我感到我已经挺幸福的了,至少我小时候,能吃到没污染或至少很少被污染的食物,喝的是健康的水,呼吸的是清新的空气…不象我们的后代,吃的是有毒的食物,喝的是有毒的水,呼吸的是有毒的空气…宝贝,请原谅我们,爸爸妈妈已经做了我们能做的事,尽量的在保护你,希望你和你的后代能改变这些,希望你和你们的后代能生活的健康,快乐.爱你们.
Help
I live in Xiamen,I love Xiamen.
But now she is driven to danger due to some person(they could not be called person)who eager for quick success and instant benefit, they do not care what you will face, when this project finish or in process, they will be promoted, they will move to other city, they will move to Beijing.Common people will suffer in future. We need to stop, to cancel this project in Xiamen not deferment.
Thanks very much for academician Zhao in Xiamen university, other scientists and other scholar who let us know this project, know this fact, know how danger we will face to. Thanks for you, above friends, you let worldwide know this. Many people get together today to express their good desire, hope more and more people join in tomorrow and future to protect our home.i know many people could not be there because they are in some special company or department ,they are threaten they will be fired if they join or their family join.
Compare to this project, some cases seem very very facetiosity,a little restaurant closed in last month due to lampblack pollution, actually this little restaurant have already invested about RMB 300K to improve, but now it was closed. and some other projects are rejected due to caol grime pollution.
Thousands thanks to you John.
We are so helpless and due to the restrictions posted by the government, we are not allowed to do anything except the strike. If it is possible, could you help us to make this issue more awared by the international media as it is illegal to say or post anything within China…
Yes, we are desperated for human right and social welfare..we need them!
Xiamen People appreciate what you have done and contributed.
I am from QuanZhou no far from Xia’men,I am so worry about this.I will tell all my friends.
I think the goverment should give us the truth
[...] peacefully, the protest held in southeast China’s seaside city of Xiamen—borne out of widespread public anger at the planned construction of a toxic chemical plant dangerously close to the city core—early [...]
protest for ever
救救厦门
百亿项目批下来，官捞政绩商发财。
院士上书已碰壁，委员联名徒悲哀。
关闭网站好封口，收缴周刊难释怀。
百万居民忧隐患，花园城市笼阴霾。
焦裕禄，周恩来，思故人，今安在？
百姓死活谁理睬，公仆管杀不管埋!
Amoy~~~~~~~belongs to yesterday~~~~~~~~
Now is destroy!!!
We didn’t have the right of freedom speech!!!!!!!!!!
What’s more,we’re not allowed to protect our own family!!!
Being a member of Xiamen City, it greatly astonishes me to learn about the desicion by the government to approve this construction plan and it is a real shock for me it goes its own way without taking the health(even life) of millions of citizens into consideration.
Now almost the accesses here to the outside world has been blocked by the authority. There is no way for people like me to express our opinions or protest in this issue.
All what we can do now is to try to find the possibilities to make the people both home & abroad to get more information of this matter & hope that the government will withdraw this project eventually.
I want Xiamen to be back to what is used to be–beautifully, peacefully!
Is GDP (money) that important?
I really don’t understand!
How to satisfy their so ugly / disgraceful appetite……?
Say NO for PX in XIAMEN!
We all trying out best to help our lovely hometown. Friends in the State, Sinigapore have already sent out the news to media, biggest blog in the States and radio station. Hope that helps….cross our fingers!! No PX in Xiamen.
It takes another 6 months to go through all thoes “testing & evaluation”…all of us know what is the result going to be! They are too “great”, they would all turn those figures look great, look safe, look environmental friendly…
These few days I think of a song I learnt when I was in school: 社会主义好，社会主义好，社会主义人民地位高。 反动派被打倒。。。who are 反动派 here?? These people fight for their future, fight for our hometown seems to be…
Money vs. Life…not so difficult to choose, right?
thank u Jhon!!I’m now studying in Beijing, and we’re trying to contact international environment organization, newspaper and tv stations.But one problem is there are so many materials needing translation. thank u for your article, I have found many translations that we can employ.
Pray our efforts will finally save Xiamen!
Hi there, Vivien Cheung, I guess I could help you about the translation stuff. Right now I am just doing the final exam and shortly after I will be available. Just tell me what I should do then.
You are doing your best to save xiamen, thank u very much. I just studied there and lived there five years ago, but I love xiamen, I pray for her, long long live Xiamen people!
xiamen people need help!!
Yes, that’s true. I’m a girl fram Xiamen. Now all the critices about this project are forbidden, many people who have joined in the marching are “invited” to the police station. We are now very desperated, cause we can’t do more things in China, all we expect is the atention and help from overseas.
Please help us save our island!!
谢谢那么多人来留言，让大家感觉到你们正面对的问题多严重。虽然环境破坏是无边界的事情——人人是有责哦——但这个故事还是你们自己来讲好，只想提出这个Global Voices新项目：发声，希望大家能够抽时间去看。
Thanks again everyone who left a message, it really shows people just how serious a problem you’re faced with. Pollution affects everyone, right? Though, it is Xiamen residents’ own story to tell, so I hope everyone who’s read this far takes a look at this.
We Xiameneses want all people who know this notice to help us write letters to the organization Greenpeace or other international organizationes like UN, WTO. O no, all 2 millones of Xiamenese will die of cancer and there will be more and more deformed babies.
Help us!!!SOS!!!!!!!
What a stupid decision to approve such a toxic project constructed in a XM! There must have been corrupts all the way in the approval process. Not sure how many top officials are xiamenese, the more, the best, caz they have family living in this city. Hopefully, they will fight for themselves and the average people. They have to become hero themselves in this bloody approval mechanisiam.
Most people feel powerless to take a stand given the restriciton on Media. But feeling so confident that the average people in XM would take a stand to oppose this bloody project. What benefits the average xm people can get from this ugly project? Nothing but pollution!My best wishes to those people taking to the street, they are heroes!
[...] bloggers are censored, the recent mass protest in Xiamen against the planned construction of a toxic chemical plant dangerously close to the city core on June 1 was seen as a landmark move for China’s leading independent blogger’s collective [...]
Well done!
Dear Hohn, thank you. As a citizen of xiamen. I appreciate for you have done for us.
Thank you!
Help us!!!
我的英语很差没有完全看明白。
那天的游行由于被学校强制要求去开会，所以我没有去成。
我的妈妈去了，可惜她没有带相机。
希望有拍照的同学把游行照片传给Hohn，事情并不是像厦门市官方所说的那样。
We need help!!!
xiamen people need help!!
Help us!!!SOS!!!!!!!
Please help us!!!!!
The Voice from Xiamen People!
那一天
我拿着我工作十年的血汗钱
还有我父母大半辈的 积蓄
在美丽的厦门安下了我的家
面朝大海 微风吹拂
因为
他们告诉我
这里是联 合国最佳人居城市
他们告诉我
这里是国际花园城市
他们告诉我
这里是中国最著名的旅游城市
风景优美 空气清新
城在海中 湖在城中
人文隽永 英才辈出
百姓富足 安居乐业
精神文 明 世风和谐
经济发达 交通便利
这里
还是中国最早的经济特区之一
而我所知道的
这里叫厦门
这里叫鹭岛
这里有鼓浪屿
这里有集美
这里有郑成功
这里有陈嘉 庚
这里有舒婷
这里有殷承宗
这里有凤凰木
这里有三角梅
这里有白鹭
这里有白海豚
这里有厦门大学
这里有全 世界最美的跑道可以马拉松
这里
还有骨肉同胞用枪炮对 望了半个多世纪的
一湾短短浅浅的海峡
这里
是我美丽的家园
你到鼓浪屿上走一走吧
没有车马的喧嚣
没有机器的轰鸣
那条条曲径通幽的小 路
是有着”万国建筑博览馆”美名的小岛的精髓
谁家窗 前飘出的琴声
还在踩着浓郁的世纪老树的树荫
温柔的脚 步声
是仍然不会惊醒的百年回音
柔柔的海浪涌啊
是你心中浓浓的化不开的深情
98米高的日光岩
依然可以回望收复宝岛的英灵
那茵郁着血色凤凰木的徐徐海风
告诉你这是个谁都不想醒来的梦
你到厦门岛上走一走吧
你到集美走一走
……
是 谁
在那我不愿记起的日子
半夜敲响了我的家门
他们告诉我一个关于PX的传说
而这传说却离现实太近
他们叫我快跑
而我还沉在梦中未醒
什么时候起
厦门的天空不再蓝了
厦门的空气不再清
尘土扬起的繁华
让三角梅枯萎了她的心情
白鹭不再跳舞
白海豚不愿飞跃
那个浓郁的散 不开的阴影
让我美丽的家园轰然无形
是谁遮住了耀眼的 太阳
云层里是否还住着神明
百万人的心在滴血啊
有人却还想着向上的阶梯
谁能告诉我啊
什么时候我还能见到厦门的光明
just want to say NO to the PX project in XIAMEN, pls return the good enviorment to us, pls don’t hurt us again and again!!!!!SOS!!!!!!!!!!
I’m worker in another city near Xiamen, but every week i’ll be in Xiamen to seek my mom and my sister also my friends there. I hope there’s NO PX in XIAMEN. Let’s Pray together to GOD to save XIAMEN from PX.
Save my mom, Save my sister, Save my friends, Save the Xiamen, Save the World
i attended the march that day. the government keep lying to people through the media. and the topics in news is bullshit.
ANTI PX
SOS!SOS!SOS!
So angry!!好好的厦门就被毁了!!
希望全世界的人们都注意到这个帖子
just come and help us! we need your help!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8686240@N08/
this is the website of the parade photos!
Anti PX factory,protect Xiamen.
当然在中国有项目做，那些当官的理所当然有暴利，油水啦，他们来厦门工作个几年，（很多当官的都不是厦门人，做几年，捞捞油水，拍拍屁股走人，）装什么蒜啊，管你厦门不厦门的，退休后全家移民，这就是中国的官场腐败啊， 而且中国在网络和新闻上，进行全封锁政策，国人对国外的任何事情都不清楚啊，根本不知道今天或此刻在世界的某地发生了什么？？？／厦门一个美好的城市，不可以败在那些拜金人手上，在这里呼吁市民请爱你们的家，你们的厦门。
对了，我还有一些话要告诉那些同意px工程的大笨蛋，你们没有子孙吗／还是你们准备好捞一把就全家走人移民去，告诉你人在做，天在看，就算你逃了，我相信还是会有报应的，可能报应在你们本人，或报应在你们子孙身上，你们做过什么，你们自己的心里清楚，希望你们夜夜恶梦。。。。
要不每个周末都组织一次啊，看他们怎么样，不在于人数的多少，每个礼拜烦死他们，中国还口口声声什么民主，还全不是冠冕堂皇的假民主，作官的就应该听到老百姓的声音，为民办实事，不是让自己的腰包鼓鼓的，不管老百姓死活，要不这声音传到国际上，你们就不更没有面子了吗，我倒是很希望中央来管管这事，再来一次反贪什么的大运动，肯定有所收获的，里面啊，有文章。。。。。
[...] Lian Yue, columnist for Guangzhou’s Southern Metropolis Daily and Bullog blogger had his personal blog blocked in early May, at the peak of many articles he wrote on the planned Px chemical plant. [...]
I live and work in the USA and I am a US citizen. I have sent a letter of concern to the Chinese Embassador in US and a letter of concern to Xiamen Government. The PX project must be relocated and all the chemical plants in Haicong must be relocated too. It will happen.
thank you so much. the government warn us if we take part in the action we will be fired ,that is true , i am a teacher ,our school also received such kind of warning and it annunces that if teachers join the action will be fired. i got angry and tell my students the truth, i am not afraid!
告诉大家，政府现在就是在拖延时间，等到大家淡忘了，他们再做，他们说再等环保评估，这样有用吗？他们决定要做，没有办法可以制止，只是借口而已，在中国我们根本没有‘民主’，‘ 言论自由’，这些词是什么？我想没有人试过，选市长，县长，或省长，首长，你们有投过一张选票吗？还不要脸的口口声声说这是一个民主国家。这种是一种专制的行为，这个国家永远听不到人民的声音。
Translation: I want to tell everybody that the government is now just biding its time, waiting until everyone cools down and forgets, then they’ll keep going. They say they’re waiting for the environmental assessment. Will it be of any use? They’ve decided to keep going, there’s no way to stop it. This is an excuse and nothing more. In China there’s no such thing as ‘democracy’, ‘free speech’, is there? I think nobody’s tried it. Mayors, county heads, premiers, senior officials—have you ever voted for one? Do you have no shame, still going on about how this is a democratic country? This is the behavior of authoritarians; this country will never hear the voices of the people.
please hear peoples voices!!!!!!! i love xiamen ,here is my hometown,what can i do ? i just want help xiamen ….my home .hope god takecare xiamen , good luck xiamen .
I hate the way Chinese government handling economic development and environment protection! How can we love this kind of government?
I am the citizen of Nanjing,Jiangsu province.I heard that the PX project had moved in Nanjing,and I am worried about it:(
The real estate in Haicang and surrounding areas are still gloom and doom. What happened?
Can anyone tell me that the PX Project is on or has it been relocated?
I’ve been following the story rather passively, but from what I understand, Pan Yue met with the environmentalist activist/journalist/blogger Ma Jun and told him to pass onto Lian Yue word that he and SEPA had done everything possible toward putting an end to the plant, but in the end the powers that be and are behind it proved consistently willing to endanger citizens’ health and well-being in exchange for GDP points.
Oh, and Chen You-hao remains a fugitive wanted in Taiwan and to extradite him or whatever would disrupt relations across the strait. Here’s to cleaning up the country in 2009!
《鼓浪屿之泪》
鼓浪屿四周海茫茫 海水鼓起波浪
鼓浪屿对着海沧区 海沧正建PX
登上日光岩眺望 只见浊气茫茫
我渴望 我渴望 好好爱护你 美丽的厦门啊
母亲生我在厦门岛 厦门港把我滋养
我愿世代偎依她身旁 无奈石化业PX毒害重重
癌症心酸啊刺痛我 厦门啊爱之深恨之切
我渴望 我渴望 好好守护你 我的亲朋啊
鼓浪屿海波日夜在哭泣 痛不尽剧毒污染毒害多
舀不干海峡的伤心泪 殇心鼓动波浪
吾乡啊吾乡 鼓浪啊鼓浪
我如何 我如何 如何守护你 致癌（爱）的厦门啊——